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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The former Secretary of Defense explores why bureaucratic institutions are failing and how then can be tarnsformed through effective leadership, citing the examples of large-scale change in the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense.
4) Broken government: [how Republican rule destroyed the legislative, executive, and judicial branches]
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Offers a critical assessment of the Republican Party and its core conservatives, assessing a decline in all three government branches since the presidency of Nixon while making a case for the next administration's responsibility in correcting key problems.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books, a imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jay Sekulow--one of America's most influential attorneys--explores the current political landscape in which bureaucracy has taken over our government and provides a practical roadmap to help take back our personal liberties. From Ellis Island to the Supreme Court in just two generations, Jay Sekulow is on a mission to defend the American right to individual freedom--and he will protect it from any threat, even if that includes our current administration....
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A bold call to reexamine how our government operates-and sometimes fails to-from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America. Just when we most need our government to work-to decarbonize our infrastructureand economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to defend ourselves against global threats-it is faltering. Government at all levels has limped into the digital age, offering online services...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A captivating study of US state secrecy that examines how officials use it to hoard power and prevent meaningful public oversight The United States was founded on the promise of a transparent government, but time and again we have abandoned the ideals ofour open republic. In recent history, we have permitted ourselves to engage in costly wars, opened ourselves to preventable attacks, and ceded unaccountable power to officials both elected and unelected....
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